QVC ... wtf?

[spooie]

It's probably just leftover inventory unearthed from some years ago. QVC used to do various videogame special offers back in the mid/late 90s. I remember one hour they spend around pimping copies of Batman Forever and the kids they had playing kept getting their asses handed to them.

Anyway... don't shrug off QVC as far as finding games... they had original Dynasty Warrior 2 cars for $20 and I can't find those damned things anywhere. Long after Castlevania Chronicles was gone, they had a bunch in stock. And I got Metal Slug X from them for $30, two years after release when NO ONE could find a new copy.

[Captain Wrong]

OK, who is going to bite the bullet and just order this to solve this mystery?








NOT IT!:P

[ddockery]

Umm, QVC does not sell only junk. I'm sure they sell some junk, but shopw me a company/store that doesn't. They don't always have great deals, but if you take the time to do a little research you can get some good deals there, and they have great customer service when you need to exchange or return things.

[Cav]

"I gave the highest marks possible in the feedback portion regarding the representative,"


Just a hunch, but I think you may have been speaking with a bot. The replies seem awfully generic.

[Tricky X]

"Just a hunch, but I think you may have been speaking with a bot. The replies seem awfully generic."

Hehe are you serious?? A bot!!


What the hell kinda bot fixes it's own typos??

Reppy: I'm sorry, we do not have that information available
Ed_O!: Who can I contact to find this out, then?
Reppy: I'm sorry, no one here would have that information avaialble
Reppy: available

Tricky X

[Cmosfm]

Someone should tell Epicenter so he can shut down QVC for selling obvious pirated consoles ...

HAHAHA.....Serv'd He'd probably get on the chat and make brasen judgements and blind accusations about the system and start blaming the reps.

[Keir]

What the hell kinda bot fixes it's own typos??

Reppy: I'm sorry, we do not have that information available
Ed_O!: Who can I contact to find this out, then?
Reppy: I'm sorry, no one here would have that information avaialble
Reppy: available

Honestly I thought they sounded like bots too. I totally missed the typo correction though! That must be the most boring job ever.

PS
Not it!

[Jasoco]

Well, one could easilly program a Bot to mess up.

I mean, it's not like TV where the Star Trek writers had to make up the bullshit that Data couldn't use Contractions when it's a simple "Find and Replace" really.

Make the Bot randomly occasionally mess up a word and then correct itself to seem real.

CONSPIRACY!!!!

[Cav]

Well, one could easilly program a Bot to mess up.

I mean, it's not like TV where the Star Trek writers had to make up the bullshit that Data couldn't use Contractions when it's a simple "Find and Replace" really.

Make the Bot randomly occasionally mess up a word and then correct itself to seem real.

CONSPIRACY!!!!

How do we know you're not a bot? hmmmm?

/wayyyyyy off topic now.........

[Daria]

Thery're not bots. They're just super polite and may use hot keys for some of the more genaric replies. Every service chat I've ever been in sounds exactly the same, but once they actually start answering your questions (if they can) they loosen up a little and sound more- human.

And yeah probably a boring job. Although if I could do that from home it would rock. Heh.

[Richter]

somebody should try and hit on a female rep

find out if they are bots or not :P

[Jasoco]

How do we know you're not a bot? hmmmm?

/wayyyyyy off topic now.........

That is so interesting. You must tell me more about the you're not a bot.

[Cmosfm]

somebody should try and hit on a female rep

find out if they are bots or not :P

I tried, they just don't respond.

[DigitalSpace]

What I'm wondering is, where's the sealed sports games?

[Ed Oscuro]

What the hell kinda bot fixes it's own typos?? O_O

Honestly I thought they sounded like bots too. I totally missed the typo correction though! That must be the most boring job ever.

You guys haven't heard of some of these newer bots then, have ya? It's fairly simple for a bot to program a bot to commit certain typographical errors with probability according to the usual amount of errors...letter transposition, etc. You could do all sorts of things, when you get right down to it.

The thing that lets me know they aren't bots is that they can actually decipher answers to questions they pose. A current, economical bot would be hard pressed to do little more than just offer up completely canned information (I have the impression that, human or not, I was stuck with canned dog shit anyways, but this way I was able to make more certain of that, or at least that my rep didn't give a rat's ass about answering my question). Bots in the future should be able to do somewhat better, but right now bots don't have an ability to understand detailed questions or syntax variations - my simple "is this a new system" question, far from confusing the bot, would have to be actually recognized as a question about such a thing. In any case, getting bots to "learn" all the facts they need to know about a certain item on QVC and typing in keywords to look for would be a ton of trouble all by itself. If you had that, though, you would then meet that issue of syntax and comprehension. There's stuff in there that implies a knowledge of tense, for example...

Maybe I should try again sometime. Somebody will take notice, perhaps, or I could get somebody in trouble for blowing me off and not making a call to find out the answer. Heh.